Gotta love the CNN exit poll numbers crunchers. They’re “drilling down,” as they say, parsing the demographic splits on the primary coverage. The CNN crew surveyed the voting trends by percentages of seniors, Latinos, veterans, Catholics and lots of other sub-groups. (One quarter of the GOP voters in Maryland were veterans!) As the numbers swirl in the air, take a step back and observe the clever demo mix on camera: between the two of them, Soledad O’Brien and Bill Schneider had most of those groups covered.

In the old days, information was manually loaded and appeared on screen. Now, in the interest of transparency– and serving up way more info than necessary– CNN intentionally mimics computer software, to convey immediacy and make us feel we’re in the data crunching biz ourselves. Hence, the repeated “exit poll data loading” blurb. Just load, already, in the privacy of your own server.

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.